Digital Music Convenience for Audiophiles

Daphile is an audiophile class music server & player OS – targeted to dedicated headless PC.

Overview

The Daphile is the heart of a digital music
system. Its primary focus is in storage and playback
of your digital music library. It enables the best
possible audio quality and future-proof flexibility
by providing plug&play support for USB connected
digital-to-analog converters (DAC). You can easily
setup a multi-zone system just by connecting another
USB DAC for each zone.

The software solutions of the Daphile are optimized
for the best possible audiophile experience. The
Daphile supports the most common file formats
including high resolution audio. It manages
bit-perfect and gapless playback.

The networking capabilities of the Daphile are
flexible and easy to setup – both wired and
wireless. It can even operate in a standalone mode
where it provides a wireless access point for the
control device. The Daphile can be controlled from
any web-enabled device. There also exists the choice
of compatible third party control applications for
tablets and smart phones.

The Daphile operates as a network-attached storage
enabling easy music transfer to its internal
storage. It is also possible to store audio CDs
directly to the internal storage by ripping them
with a connected optical drive. The CD album
metadata and cover are automatically fetched from
the Internet during the ripping process. In addition
to internal storage the Daphile can play music from
various Internet streaming services as well as from
external USB-connected and network-attached storage
devices.

The Daphile is in many ways an extensible, future
proof solution. The core software provided by Daphile
is user upgradeable via the Internet. The system
functionality can be extended with third party
plug-ins.

Philosophy

The principal design philosophy for the Daphile has
been simplicity and focused functionality to produce
a flexible and future proof audiophile component for
the era of high resolution digital music.

From the audiophile perspective the digital music
listening is finally – first time after the birth of
CD – taking a big leap forward. This owes primarily to

Internet distribution of lossless and high
resolution audio files (superior to CD sound
quality) and

High-end asynchronous USB digital-to-analog
converters.

The asynchronous USB signal transmission enables
improved audio component independence for DAC
i.e. digital-to-analog conversion accuracy
(including timing) is now fully determined in the
domain of DAC. Most of the best DACs in the market
are already using USB input. And they are worthy of
a good partner to supply the music stream for them –
not just a computer equipped with a standard
operating system.

The Daphile is designed to be the perfect companion
for USB DAC. Just plug your USB DAC into the Daphile
and start playing – no configuration is needed. The
Daphile has audiophile optimized software solutions
for digital music playback and storage. Its main
priority is in providing the bit-perfect continuous
audio stream for the connected audio devices.

Ease-of-use

The use of the Daphile is simple and requires no
expertize. Initial deployment, networking, music
storage, CD ripping, DAC setup, multi-zone usage,
external storage usage, software upgrade, etc...is
just easy. And for the preference of music control you
have a number of excellent options.

Enjoy the music.

Features

Headless music server OS

Bitperfect and gapless playback

Extensive audio format support

Native DSD playback up to DSD512

PCM resolutions up to 384kHz/24bit

High quality audio resampling including PCM to DSD conversion

Convolution filtering for DRC and equalizer

"Play from RAM" to minimize CPU load and disk activity during playback